Best solo melee class?

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's the determining factor.

lol

[Naethyn]

I like the woushi shield, because I already have buttons on my (1) hotbar for swaping weapons and it doesn't require me to use valuable hotbar space on other slots.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

I did a quick video in HS north using Blood Ember Gauntlets and Blood Ember Boots for fear kiting. I used SK Epic for my weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjWT9dj2uI

I started at 100% HP and Mana. After 6 kills, I ended the 6th kill at 100% HP and Mana. This was without taking any breaks between kills. I did not meditate at all.

This is an example of how strong clickies are when it comes to saving mana. For all of the people wary about clickie cast times, Blood Ember Boots have a 7 second cast time, and the gloves have a 5 second cast time. I was able to land them just fine without any significant issues to the overall session.

[Vexenu]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I did a quick video in HS north using Blood Ember Gauntlets and Blood Ember Boots for fear kiting. I used SK Epic for my weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjWT9dj2uI

I started at 100% HP and Mana. After 6 kills, I ended the 6th kill at 100% HP and Mana. This was without taking any breaks between kills. I did not meditate at all.

This is an example of how strong clickies are when it comes to saving mana. For all of the people wary about clickie cast times, Blood Ember Boots have a 7 second cast time, and the gloves have a 5 second cast time. I was able to land them just fine without any significant issues to the overall session.

Have you experimented with just using the gauntlets and casting Spook the Dead instead of clicking the boots? Much shorter cast time and only 10 mana. With a five-second difference in cast time, you could med the mana back after each kill and come out ahead, even without a FT item.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have you experimented with just using the gauntlets and casting Spook the Dead instead of clicking the boots? Much shorter cast time and only 10 mana. With a five-second difference in cast time, you could med the mana back after each kill and come out ahead, even without a FT item.

Yes, I do this already in HS. I had Spook the Dead on bar.

The point was to show you can do it with Blood Ember Boots too and still end with 100% HP and Mana.

Some posters like Cecily seem to think clicky cast times are a major problem, but they generally aren't, even at 7 seconds.

I have FT1 and FT2, and I still use blood ember boots to save mana. Not all targets are undead. Blood Ember Boots save you 40 mana on a live target. So even if you don't want to use them on undead, this strategy works just fine on live mobs.

And yes, you can med a tick between pulls. But unless you are counting server ticks, you may end up waiting 5 seconds for the next server tick anyway.

[Crede]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have you experimented with just using the gauntlets and casting Spook the Dead instead of clicking the boots? Much shorter cast time and only 10 mana. With a five-second difference in cast time, you could med the mana back after each kill and come out ahead, even without a FT item.

I could usually go 2+ hours before needing a med break on my sk in HS. Slam/epic is extremely helpful in close quarters fear kiting. I typically always used spook for undead, and boots for the live mobs. I would also use dooming to lead depending on positioning and how slow I needed the mob to be. But once at around 50% engulfing was always plenty slow to finish the job. As demonstrated in this thread, the epic is extremely good at mitigating damage due to the life tap proc. I would usually proc epic then switch to great spear of dawn and go back and forth balancing tanking and fear kiting.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Crede [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I could usually go 2+ hours before needing a med break on my sk in HS. Slam/epic is extremely helpful in close quarters fear kiting. I typically always used spook for undead, and boots for the live mobs. I would also use dooming to lead depending on positioning and how slow I needed the mob to be. But once at around 50% engulfing was always plenty slow to finish the job. As demonstrated in this thread, the epic is extremely good at mitigating damage due to the life tap proc. I would usually proc epic then switch to great spear of dawn and go back and forth balancing tanking and fear kiting.

Yeah this basically what I do as well. The main difference is I probably use Dooming less. I use it for the first mob I kill on ramp sometimes since I have less runway, but I mostly just use gloves. Also I don't have a great spear for swap.

If you are killing the mobs on the North ramp, usually engulfing darkness is good enough, even above 50%:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjWT9dj2uI

But I'd certainly use Dooming in other areas if the runway is too small.

[Cecily]

Maybe I'll record 30 mins running of farming Crushbone with a Vulak Axe to demonstrate how clickies are unnecessary.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe I'll record 30 mins running of farming Crushbone with a Vulak Axe to demonstrate how clickies are unnecessary.

Clearly Howling Stones is just as easy as Crushbone. Your game knowledge is truly impressive!

You could record your Ranger and show us why you think you are correct about clickies. But then you would open yourself up to critisism of your playstyle. Your ego probably wouldn't allow that.

I've proven you wrong with multiple videos now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMz5gpf_EY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjWT9dj2uI

People can decide who is more credible:

1. Cecily, who leveled 3 Rangers to 60 and still goes OOM in XP groups due to a lack of mana management knowledge.

2. Factual videos.

There's nothing wrong with not knowing something. It is ok to admit you are wrong from time to time, and learn from others.

I am not trying to be mean here. From what I have seen you simply have a pattern of using the argument from authority fallacy. It is great that you have leveled 3 Rangers to 60. You know more about Rangers than I do. But that doesn't mean you know everything, and are unable to learn from others.

[Cecily]

I don't get what you're saying. A Vulak Axe would work just as well in Splitpaw with no clickies needed either.